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Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie lost the Republican congressional primary after he was targeted by a political smear ad generated by AI (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Massie aims to impeach Hegseth over Iran

Troy Farah

Though the move is not expected to succeed, it could have broad impact on the upcoming elections

Hide your vegetables. You're an adult (twomeows / Getty Images)

Hide your vegetables. You're an adult

Ashlie D. Stevens

Put cheese on the broccoli. Hide zucchini in brownies. You’re still eating the vegetables — and that counts

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks  in Dallas on Dec. 19, 2025. (Omar Vega/Getty Images)

Jasmine Crockett praises Chris Brown

Shefali Luthra - The 19th

We're breaking down why people online are mad at the Texas Democrat

President Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SCOTUS blocks Trump's mail voting attack

Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat - Votebeat

The Supreme Court ruling marked the culmination of a frenzied, monthslong legal battle

Mariska Hargitay performs onstage during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sept. 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Chloe Kern / WireImage)

The Emmy crimes of Mariska Hargitay

Melanie McFarland

In award shows, making a notoriously boring telecast worse is considered especially heinous

Joseph diGenova has decades of experience in attacking those seen as enemies of the GOP (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump's made man fails to get indictment

Heather Digby Parton

Joseph diGenova's abrupt resignation shows there is no "grand conspiracy"

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the second day of the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 10, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

Why Disney let Ted Cruz hijack "GameDay"

Sophia Tesfaye

ESPN sacrificed its signature show to save Disney's broadcast empire

President Donald Trump and Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin listen to a question from the media at Farmleigh House in Dublin on Sept. 12, 2026. (Micheál Martin)

Trump's Irish golf weekend causes uproar

Andrew O'Hehir

Irish unification would be "fantastic," Trump says. Nobody asked, and nobody's thrilled

President Donald Trump departs after delivering remarks at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence on Aug. 14, 2026, in Garden City, New York. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Anti‑bribery laws and Trump’s promise

Austin Sarat - The Conversation

Trump’s offer seems to run afoul of federal laws, which make it a crime to pay for votes

Donald Trump and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Evian, France, on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump dismisses AI concerns as "hoax"

Troy Farah

A meeting with AI executives at the White House is reportedly in the works, according to Speaker Mike Johnson

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in "Practical Magic 2" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Some sequels are destined to disappoint

Coleman Spilde

"Practical Magic 2" bet on a devotion that was really just a love of autumn and soft lighting

Stewy mushrooms for Monday nights (Ashlie Stevens )

These mushrooms save Monday night dinner

Ashlie D. Stevens

A back-pocket mushroom formula for rice, toast, noodles and whatever the first weeknight can handle

Marathon Petroleum Corp's Los Angeles Refinery, one of the largest oil refineries in the North America on March 10, 2026. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump's own energy crisis traps him

Troy Farah

The president vowed $2 gas prices. Instead, he's created a problem of his own making

Donald Trump Jr. and now wife Bettina Anderson have been together since 2024, engaged since December 2025. Trump's father will be skipping their wedding weekend, blaming it on international issues. (Christopher Polk / Getty Images)

Putin ally bankrolled Don Jr. wedding

Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski - ProPublica

He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but attended intimate wedding with a group of other Russian guests

Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Sept. 29, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

US allies break ranks on Israel

Andrew O'Hehir

For 25 years, the US "war on terror" has driven global policy on the Middle East. Now the world is moving on

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a Mexican Border Defense Medal Ceremony at the Pentagon on July 27, 2026. (Annabelle GORDON / AFP)

Pete Hegseth's polygraph theater

Jesselyn Radack

The defense secretary is weaponizing lie detectors against military and civilian officials

President Donald Trump is greeted by Irish President Catherine Connolly, where he waded into decades-old, sensitive political conflicts. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Trump supports Irish reunification

CK Smith

“It may as well happen now,” the president said of a dispute that fueled decades of deadly conflict

Earth Wind & Fire perform at Music for UNICEF Concert at The United Nations in New York, on January 9, 1979. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

Your instant mood fix soundtrack

Melanie McFarland

Let’s harmonize on the wondrous power of the “non-lexical vocable”

A John Deere combine harvests a healthy crop of soybeans in Autumn/near Northland, Minnesota. (Richard Hamilton Smith/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How soybeans took over the American diet

Edward D. Melillo - The Conversation

Most people don’t think of themselves as soybean consumers, but it's in much of our food supply

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. watches the program on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. got outdone by Taco Bell

Ashlie D. Stevens

Sen. Warren is using Taco Bell’s outbreak response to ask why federal agencies couldn’t communicate as clearly

Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Finn Gomez / John Nacion / Noushad Thekkayil / ANGELA WEISS)

America's wet hot socialist summer

Michael Tedder

Fox News and Republicans are struggling to contain their desire when it comes to the progressive left

All the administrations after 9/11 have caved to the temptation to skirt civil liberties in the name of protecting “the homeland” (Getty Images)

The security state we never turned off

Heather Digby Parton

Built as a response to 9/11, America's security apparatus has become a rabid beast

Mother-to-be (d3sign via Getty Images)

Ectopic pregnancy deaths nearly doubled

Andrea Suozzo, Agnel Philip - ProPublica

ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that almost 200 women died after an ectopic pregnancy from 2020 to 2025

Members of the crowd hold their hands up as they make a pledge with US President Donald Trump during the second day of the Republican National Committee midterm convention. (Patrick T. Fallon / Getty Images)

Trump: Pledge allegiance to vote for me

CK Smith

President had supporters raise their hands, promise to vote and “try and cheat like hell” to keep GOP majority

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